If it was you out there somewhere, would you want me not to look for you?
Caitie's temper flared. Had he forgotten the fact that he and Christina had sent her to live here by herself for months? “I was out here somewhere!” she snapped. “I was living here all by myself, hiding from everyone else and waiting for you or Christina to get here, and it took you for freaking ever!” she shouted, putting the duck down on the floor so that she didn't accidentally hurt him in her anger.
“Maybe she's, like... maybe she found a boyfriend out there or maybe she's trying to help other people get out here, Everett.” She looked away. “I don't want to leave again. It's safe here, and I have a life.”